Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Ezra 10:5
Verse Ezra 10:5. And they sware.] The thing was evidently contrary to the law of God; and now he bound them by an oath to rectify the abuse.
Verse Ezra 10:5. And they sware.] The thing was evidently contrary to the law of God; and now he bound them by an oath to rectify the abuse.
CHAPTER 10 _ 1. The effect of Ezra's prayer on the people (Ezra 10:1)_ 2. Ezra summons an assembly (Ezra 10:5) 3. The gathering, confession and the evil judged (Ezra 10:9) 4. The register of those...
THE PEOPLE SWEAR TO PUT AWAY THEIR FOREIGN WIVES. The narrative now proceeds in the third person. Ezra 10:2. Shecaniah: a common name; not necessarily identical with the person of this name referred t...
THE CHIEF PRIESTS. the princes of the priests. Compare 2 Chronicles 36:14. THE LEVITES. Some codices, with one early printed edition, read "and the Levites"....
Ezra's prompt action: an oath administered to the princes. _the chief priests, the Levites, and all Israel_ R.V. THE CHIEFS OF THE PRIESTS. Here as in Ezra 8:29 the A.V. by rendering -chief priests" g...
2. The decision is shared by the leaders, and an assembly is ordered. TEXT, EZRA 10:5-8 5 Then Ezra rose and made the leading priests, the Levites, and all Israel, take oath that they would do acco...
_NOW THEREFORE LET US MAKE A COVENANT WITH OUR GOD TO PUT AWAY ALL THE WIVES, AND SUCH AS ARE BORN OF THEM, ACCORDING TO THE COUNSEL OF MY LORD, AND OF THOSE THAT TREMBLE AT THE COMMANDMENT OF OUR GOD...
THE FOREIGN WIVES ARE DIVORCED 3. According to the law] see Deuteronomy 24:1, which required a bill of divorcement....
THE CHIEF PRIESTS] RV 'the chiefs of the priests': see 2 Chronicles 36:14....
THE *JEWS RETURN TO JERUSALEM EZRA _ROBERT BRYCE_ CHAPTER 10 V1 Ezra prayed and he confessed. He wept and he threw himself onto the ground in front of the house of God. As he was doing these thin...
X. (1-6) The covenant of repentance and amendment. Here the narrative assumes another form; and, in accordance with the solemnity of a great public transaction, Ezra adopts the third person. (1) BEFO...
וַ יָּ֣קָם עֶזְרָ֡א וַ יַּשְׁבַּ֣ע אֶת ־שָׂרֵ
THE HOME SACRIFICED TO THE CHURCH Ezra 10:1 EZRA'S narrative, written in the first person, ceases with his prayer, the conclusion of which brings us to the end of the ninth chapter of our Book of Ezr...
PUTTING AWAY STRANGE MARRIAGES Ezra 10:1 The people seem to have been more impressed by Ezra's intense grief of soul than they could have been by his severest condemnation. Is not this the secret of...
The sincerity and passion of Ezra's vicarious repentance produced immediate results. The people had gathered about him through the long hours of the day, and it would seem that they became conscious o...
Who but must admire the holy zeal of Ezra? What a wonderful attempt it must have been? What a crucifixion of the flesh with its affections and lusts? Do, Reader, observe how the Lord seemed to answer...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 9 AND 10. Alas! as soon as he can look into these things, he finds the law already broken, evil already come in. The people of Israel had not kept themselves...
THEN AROSE EZRA,.... From the ground where he lay: AND MADE THE CHIEF PRIESTS, AND THE LEVITES, AND ALL ISRAEL, TO SWEAR THAT THEY SHOULD DO ACCORDING TO THIS WORD: he took an oath of all that were p...
Then arose Ezra, and made the chief priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they should do according to this word. And they sware. Ver. 5. _Then arose Ezra_] According to the counsel of S...
_Arise, for this matter belongeth unto thee_ Who hast a perfect knowledge of the law, and full power from the king of Persia to see every thing done according to it; and who hast most skill to manage...
[ORDER TAKEN FOR STRANGE MARIAGES.] 1 Shechaniah encourageth Ezra to reforme the strange mariages. 6 Ezra mourning, assembleth the people. 9 The people at the exhortation of Ezra, repent and promis...
Then arose Ezra and made the chief priests, the Levites, and all Israel to swear that they should do according to this word, he obligated them by a solemn oath and thus stimulated their zeal. AND THEY...
Ezra's Reform Measures Adopted...
ACTION FOLLOWING PRAYER (vv. 1-17) Ezra expected an answer to his prayer, and God provided the answer immediately in moving a very huge number of men, women and children to gather together before Hi...
1-5 Shechaniah owned the national guilt. The case is sad, but it is not desperate; the disease threatening, but not incurable. Now that the people begin to lament, a spirit of repentance seems to be...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Ezra 10:5 Ezra H5830 arose H6965 (H8799) leaders H8269 priests H3548 Levites H3881 Israel H3478 oath H7650 ...
SHECANIAH CONFESSES TO EZRA THE GUILT OF THOSE WHO HAVE TAKEN IDOLATROUS FOREIGN WIVES AND CONFIRMS THEIR AGREEMENT TO THE PLAN PUT FORWARD BY EZRA AND THOSE WHO TREMBLE AT GOD'S WORD (EZRA 10:1). A g...
CONTENTS: Separation restored. Strange wives surrendered. CHARACTERS: God, Ezra, Shecaniah, Jonanan. CONCLUSION: There is hope concerning people when they are convinced not only that it is good to p...
Ezra 10:6. _When he came._ It should read, _till he came thither,_ as appears from chap. Ezra 9:4, and at a late hour after the evening devotion. Ezra 10:9. _It was the ninth month,_ the depth of wint...
_Now when Ezra had prayed._ PRAYER AND CONFESSION The former chapter did set down the humiliation of Ezra; this demonstrates the fruit and effect that it produced. When the people saw that he was so...
EZRA 10:1 The People Agree to Dissolve the Marriages. Ezra prays, and the people confess their sin (vv. Ezra 10:1). They agree to do God’s will (vv. Ezra 1
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.] In this chapter we have the account of—(i.) Shechaniah’s proposal to put away the strange wives (Ezra 10:1). (ii.) Ezra’s fast because of the people’s sin (Ezra 10:6)....
EXPOSITION REPENTANCE OF THE PEOPLE, AND COVENANT SWORN TO, ON THE RECOMMENDATION OF SHECHANIAH (Ezra 10:1). While Ezra was uttering his prayer aloud, upon his knees, in f
But here a very stringent and harsh measure was taken. They put away all of these wives, and they said unto him with a loud voice, As thou hast said, so must we do (Ezra 10:12). They realized that it...
Ezra 10:3; Matthew 26:63; Nehemiah 10:29; Nehemiah 13:25; Nehemiah